I have changed my local history project from the Gudgeonville bridge/historic bridges to the Brig Niagara and the War of 1812 naval conflict on Lake Erie led by Oliver Hazard Perry.

A photo listing the dead/wounded aboard the Brig Niagara:http://memory.loc.gov/award/icufaw/bbf0104/0100v.jpg

History of the Brig Niagara and Oliver Hazard Perry's victory on Lake Erie
http://hnsa.org/ships/niagara.htm

The Treaty of Ghent (1814) which ended the War of 1812
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=20

Log of the Battle of Lake Erie (from the front page of "The Erie Dispatch" July 12, 1913)
http://www.brigniagara.org/Battlelog.htm

William Henry Harrison Battle Orders (involving Commodore Perry of the Brig Niagara)
http://memory.loc.gov/award/icufaw/bmf0026/0002r.jpg